Re: [Geotools-devel] Embedded styles

2010-03-01 Thread Michael Bedward
Ah... I see. Thanks Jody. On 2 March 2010 18:14, Jody Garnett wrote: > I think the difference is for "data formats" such as CAD or KML where the > presentation information is baked into the format. > > I once had a talk with James about this; and he wanted us to make an amazing > SLD file that

Re: [Geotools-devel] Embedded styles

2010-03-01 Thread Jody Garnett
I think the difference is for "data formats" such as CAD or KML where the presentation information is baked into the format. I once had a talk with James about this; and he wanted us to make an amazing SLD file that would reference each attribute in a CAD dataset and pull it out into SLD terms.

Re: [Geotools-devel] Embedded styles

2010-03-01 Thread Michael Bedward
Question from the back row... How does this differ to using filters to set style attributes based on feature data ? Or is it another, perhaps easier, way of skinning the same cat ? Michael -- Download IntelĀ® Parallel St

Re: [Geotools-devel] Embedded styles

2010-03-01 Thread Jody Garnett
You may want to handle by passing control over to a custom "renderer" as is done with RasterRenderer/ShapefileRenderer? Recognize the featuretype and engage something specific? Your idea of a NativeSymbolizer is not bad - we did "open" the Symbolizer data structure - so you can have a vendor speci

[Geotools-devel] Embedded styles

2010-03-01 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi, during the last days random questions on supporting DXF via OGR, or support KML as a source for data layers made me think about how to support in the renderer a concept of style/symbolizer associated with the feature as opposed of being declared in the SLD. I guess the list of symbolizers to b